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#OnThisDAy in 1520, Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, dies on his 37th birthday.
#Born #OnThisDay in 1732 british #artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard
pic.: "The Musician Contest" at @WallaceMuseum
#art
Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator, born #OnThisDay 1647
Hans Christian Andersen, author of terrifying #fairytales, was born #onthisday in 1805. #twitterstorians
Giacomo Casanova, famed adventurer, was born #onthisday in 1725. #twitterstorians
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden by John Constable, who died #onthisday in 1838… #twitterstorians #art
#BornOnThisDay artist #BertramBrooker, best known for the bold stance he took on the Canadian painted nude in 1931.
Happy birthday Vincent van Gogh, born on this day in 1853. #VanGogh #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay: Vincent van Gogh was born. Happy 163rd birthday to a man who could paint a bit: https://t.co/qhsdipoNm5
#OnThisDay 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft married William Godwin. She was pregnant with their daughter Mary at the time.
Herman ten Kate died #onthisday in 1891. @TEYLERS owns this watercolor by him. Soldiers where his favourite subject!
“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.
Walter Whitman, American poet, died #OnThisDay in 1892.
Happy birthday to our founding benefactor, Andrew W. Mellon! He was born #onthisday in 1855. https://t.co/3WOGJU466d
Caricature of the great William Morris, born #onthisday in 1834. More "cartoon portraits": https://t.co/weGV06e0Wf
#OnThisDay in 1890, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories, starts.
Best #GoogleDoodle ever. William Morris, born #onthisday 1834.
William Smith, the Father of English Geology, was born #onthisday in 1769. #twitterstorians #histsci
#OnThisDay 91 Years Ago, It Became Illegal to Teach Evolution in Tennessee https://t.co/u3AzOPCPeo